Seven people went on trial in Azerbaijan on Tuesday in the latest of a series of cases against staff of independent news media, prompting accusations of a crackdown on the press.

The Jewish community in Azerbaijan’s capital gathered to pray for the incoming president and celebrate the strong ties between their nations.

Hear from a panel of UMN delegates who attended the United Nations’ Climate Talks in Baku as they discuss the successes and failures of the 29th Conference of the Parties (COP29).

A billionaire former banker and 15 other ex-officials in the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region which Azerbaijan retook in 2023 went on trial on Friday in Baku in closed-door proceedings. The most prominent of the defendants,

BAKU. Jan 24 (Interfax) - Gas production and export from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz field are back to normal following a technical issue with the condensate pipeline, Tamam Bayatli, chief spokesperson for BP in Azerbaijan, told reporters on Friday.

Russia’s president is said to have blamed birds or a Ukrainian drone for a Dec. 25 crash of an Azerbaijani plane. Azerbaijan says Russian air defenses were at fault.

Azerbaijan's President Aliyev renews demands for the Zangezur corridor, jeopardizing the fragile peace process with Armenia and raising regional tensions.

On January 20, the working regime of Baku Metro CJSC will be changed. In connection with the National Day of Mourning, an enhanced working regime will be implemented with special control measures at the "20 January" stations,

Azerbaijani human rights activist Bakhtiyar Hajiyev was sentenced by a Baku court to 10 years in prison on Monday on an array of corruption and other charges that he denied, his lawyer told Reuters. "We are dissatisfied with the court's decision and will file an appeal,

Axel Fischer and Eduard Lintner, former Bundestag deputies, were members of the German delegation to the international human rights organization to which Azerbaijan belongs. Both were implicated in the so-called Azerbaijani Laundromat —a Europe-wide lobbying and money-laundering scheme uncovered by OCCRP in 2017.

Azerbaijan’s government has dismissed as insufficient Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian’s apparent offer to make more concessions to reach an Armenian-Azerbaijani peace deal.

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